An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 5975-00-384-8077
NSN 6645-01-521-3180
NSN 5905-01-315-2330
NSN 6130-01-005-5693
NSN 5915-01-145-5340
NSN 5998-00-278-7350
NSN 5910-01-243-1606
NSN 6220-01-325-9212
NSN 5985-01-223-8380
NSN 5835-00-707-6266
NSN 5975-01-312-2136
NSN 5998-01-521-4978